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(Mike Auger, CMI - RI 43685, RMC-142, RMB-096)
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Original brick column failed, added wooden makeshift log column, log column eaten by WDO, added another wood column, that too eaten by WDO. Then added an unsecured lolly column on a makeshift “footing”. All columns like this. :shock:
This water heater vent pipe had negative slope and was vented into the masonry chimey with a huge hole in the side. There were bedrooms on the other side of the wall… I shut the water heater off immediately!!
Requirements for mine reads in part: distance to combustible materials is 2 feet and not less that 4 feet horizontally from doors, windows, or gravity/ventilation air inlet into the building.
Here is an old brick built tuck-under garage. Note that the floor is created with poured concrete over steel joist. The owner had a wood burning stove below which heated the lower level. All the moisture/condensation from the stove has caused Major Corrosion to the joist, literally eating them away. Would you park your car in this garage?